Jharkhand Legislative Assembly

Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
6th Jharkhand Assembly
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Term limits
5 years
History
Founded2000 (2000)
Preceded byBihar Legislative Assembly
Leadership
Santosh Gangwar
since 31 July 2024
Speaker
Rabindra Nath Mahato, JMM
since 6 January 2020
Deputy Speaker
vacant
Chief Minister
(Leader of the House)
Hemant Soren, JMM
since 28 November 2024
Leader of the Opposition
Babulal Marandi, BJP
since 6 March 2025
Structure
Seats81
Political groups
Government (56)
  MGB (56)

Official Opposition (24)

  NDA (24)

Others (1)

  •   JLKM (1)
Elections
First past the post
Last election
13 - 20 November 2024
Next election
2029
Meeting place
Vidhan Sabha Bhavan, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Website
jharkhandvidhansabha.nic.in

The Jharkhand Legislative Assembly, commonly known as the Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha, is the unicameral state legislature of Jharkhand state in India. The seat of the Legislative Assembly is at Ranchi, the capital of the state.

List of assemblies

Assembly
(election) 		Chief Minister Term Party[a]
1st[b]
(2000 election) 		Babulal Marandi 15 November 2000 18 March 2003 2 years, 123 days Bharatiya Janata Party
Arjun Munda 18 March 2003 2 March 2005 1 year, 349 days
2nd
(2005 election) 		Shibu Soren 2 March 2005 12 March 2005 10 days Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Arjun Munda 12 March 2005 18 September 2006 1 year, 190 days Bharatiya Janata Party
Madhu Koda 18 September 2006 27 August 2008 1 year, 343 days Independent
Shibu Soren 27 August 2008 19 January 2009 145 days Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Vacant[c]

(President's rule)

19 January 2009 30 December 2009 345 days N/A
3rd
(2009 election) 		Shibu Soren 30 December 2009 1 June 2010 153 days Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Vacant[c]

(President's rule)

1 June 2010 11 September 2010 102 days N/A
Arjun Munda 11 September 2010 18 January 2013 2 years, 129 days Bharatiya Janata Party
Vacant[c]

(President's rule)

18 January 2013 13 July 2013 176 days N/A
Hemant Soren 13 July 2013 28 December 2014 1 year, 168 days Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
4th
(2014 election) 		Raghubar Das 28 December 2014 29 December 2019 5 years, 1 day Bharatiya Janata Party
5th
(2019 election) 		Hemant Soren 29 December 2019 2 February
2024 		4 years, 35 days Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Champai Soren 2 February
2024 		4 July
2024 		153 days
Hemant Soren 4 July
2024 		28 November
2024 		147 days
6th
(2024 election) 		Hemant Soren 28 November
2024 		Incumbent 1 year, 151 days

Composition

Alliance Political party No. of MLAs Leader of the party
Government
MGB
Seats: 56 		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 34 Hemant Soren
(Chief Minister)
Indian National Congress 16 Keshav Mahto Kamlesh
Rashtriya Janata Dal 4 Sanjay Prasad Yadav
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation 2 Arup Chatterjee
Opposition
NDA
Seats: 24 		Bharatiya Janata Party 21 Babulal Marandi
(Leader of the Opposition)
All Jharkhand Students Union 1 Sudesh Mahato
Janata Dal (United) 1 Saryu Roy
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) 1 Janardan Paswan
Others
Seats: 1 		Jharkhand Loktantrik Krantikari Morcha 1 Jairam Kumar Mahato
Total 81


Members of Legislative Assembly

District No. Constituency Name Party Alliance Remarks
Sahebganj 1 Rajmahal Mohammad Tajuddin JMM MGB
2 Borio Dhananjay Soren
3 Barhait Hemant Soren Chief Minister
Pakur 4 Litipara Hemlal Murmu
5 Pakur Nisat Alam INC
6 Maheshpur Stephen Marandi JMM
Dumka 7 Sikaripara Alok Kumar Soren
Jamtara 8 Nala Rabindra Nath Mahato Speaker
9 Jamtara Irfan Ansari INC Cabinet minister
Dumka 10 Dumka Basant Soren JMM
11 Jama Louis Marandi
12 Jarmundi Devendra Kunwar BJP NDA
Deoghar 13 Madhupur Hafizul Hasan JMM MGB Cabinet minister
14 Sarath Uday Shankar Singh
15 Deoghar Suresh Paswan RJD
Godda 16 Poreyahat Pradeep Yadav INC
17 Godda Sanjay Prasad Yadav RJD Cabinet minister
18 Mahagama Dipika Pandey Singh INC Cabinet minister
Koderma 19 Kodarma Neera Yadav BJP NDA
Hazaribagh 20 Barkatha Amit Kumar Yadav
21 Barhi Manoj Kumar Yadav
Ramgarh 22 Barkagaon Roshan Lal Choudhary
23 Ramgarh Mamta Devi INC MGB
Hazaribagh 24 Mandu Nirmal Mahto AJSU NDA
25 Hazaribagh Pradip Prasad BJP
Chatra 26 Simaria Kumar Ujjwal BJP
27 Chatra Janardan Paswan LJP(RV)
Giridih 28 Dhanwar Babulal Marandi BJP Leader of Opposition
29 Bagodar Nagendra Mahto
30 Jamua Manju Kumari
31 Gandey Kalpana Soren JMM MGB
32 Giridih Sudivya Kumar Cabinet minister
33 Dumri Jairam Kumar Mahato JLKM None
Bokaro 34 Gomia Yogendra Prasad JMM MGB Cabinet minister
35 Bermo Kumar Jaimangal Singh INC
36 Bokaro Shwettaa Singh
37 Chandankiyari Umakant Rajak JMM
Dhanbad 38 Sindri Bablu Mahato CPI(ML)L
39 Nirsa Arup Chatterjee
40 Dhanbad Raj Sinha BJP NDA
41 Jharia Ragini Singh
42 Tundi Mathura Prasad Mahato JMM MGB
43 Baghmara Shatrughan Mahto BJP NDA
East Singhbhum 44 Baharagora Samir Mohanty JMM MGB
45 Ghatsila Ramdas Soren Died on 15 August 2025
Somesh Soren Elected in 2025 by-election
46 Potka Sanjib Sardar
47 Jugsalai Mangal Kalindi
48 Jamshedpur East Purnima Sahu BJP NDA
49 Jamshedpur West Saryu Roy JD(U)
Seraikela Kharsawan 50 Ichagarh Sabita Mahato JMM MGB
51 Seraikella Champai Soren BJP NDA
West Singhbhum 52 Chaibasa Deepak Birua JMM MGB Cabinet minister
53 Majhgaon Niral Purty
54 Jaganathpur Sona Ram Sinku INC
55 Manoharpur Jagat Majhi JMM
56 Chakradharpur Sukhram Oraon
Seraikela Kharsawan 57 Kharsawan Dashrath Gagrai
Ranchi 58 Tamar Vikash Kumar Munda
Khunti 59 Torpa Sudeep Gudhiya
60 Khunti Ram Surya Munda
Ranchi 61 Silli Amit Mahto
62 Khijri Rajesh Kachhap INC
63 Ranchi C. P. Singh BJP NDA
64 Hatia Navin Jaiswal
65 Kanke Suresh Kumar Baitha INC MGB
66 Mandar Shilpi Neha Tirkey Cabinet minister
Gumla 67 Sisai Jiga Susaran Horo JMM
68 Gumla Bhushan Tirkey
69 Bishunpur Chamra Linda Cabinet minister
Simdega 70 Simdega Bhushan Bara INC
71 Kolebira Naman Bixal Kongari
Lohardaga 72 Lohardaga Rameshwar Oraon
Latehar 73 Manika Ramachandra Singh
74 Latehar Prakash Ram BJP NDA
Palamu 75 Panki Shashi Bhushan Mehta
76 Daltonganj Alok Chaurasiya
77 Bishrampur Naresh Prasad Singh RJD MGB
78 Chhatarpur Radha Krishna Kishore INC Cabinet minister
79 Hussainabad Sanjay Kumar Yadav RJD
Garhwa 80 Garhwa Satyendra Nath Tiwari BJP NDA
81 Bhawanathpur Anant Pratap Deo JMM MGB

Speakers of Legislative Assembly


Leaders of the House

  • † Died in office
  • § Returned to office after a previous non-consecutive term
# Portrait Chief Minister
(Birth-Death)
Constituency 		Election Term of office Political party Ministry
From To Period
1 Babulal Marandi
(born 1958)
MLA for Ramgarh 		2000
(1st) 		15 November 2000 18 March 2003 2 years, 123 days Bharatiya Janata Party Marandi
2 Arjun Munda
(born 1968)
MLA for Kharsawan 		18 March 2003 2 March 2005 1 year, 349 days Munda I
3 Shibu Soren
(1944–2025)
Non-elected 		2005
(2nd) 		2 March 2005 12 March 2005 10 days Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Shibu I
(2) Arjun Munda
(born 1968)
MLA for Kharsawan 		12 March 2005[§] 18 September 2006 1 year, 190 days Bharatiya Janata Party Munda II
4 Madhu Koda
(born 1971)
MLA for Jaganathpur 		18 September 2006 27 August 2008 1 year, 344 days Independent Koda
(3) Shibu Soren
(1944–2025)
Non-elected 		27 August 2008[§] 19 January 2009 145 days Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Shibu II
Position vacant (19 January – 30 December 2009)
President's rule was imposed during this period[d]
(3) Shibu Soren
(1944–2025)
Non-elected 		2009
(3rd) 		30 December 2009[§] 1 June 2010 153 days Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Shibu III
Position vacant (1 June – 11 September 2010)
President's rule was imposed during this period[d]
(2) Arjun Munda
(born 1968)
MLA for Kharsawan 		–
(3rd) 		11 September 2010[§] 18 January 2013 2 years, 129 days Bharatiya Janata Party Munda III
Position vacant (18 January – 13 July 2013)
President's rule was imposed during this period[d]
5 Hemant Soren
(born 1975)
MLA for Dumka 		–
(3rd) 		13 July 2013 28 December 2014 1 year, 168 days Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Hemant I
6 Raghubar Das
(born 1955)
MLA for Jamshedpur East 		2014
(4th) 		28 December 2014 29 December 2019 5 years, 1 day Bharatiya Janata Party Das
(5) Hemant Soren
(born 1975)
MLA for Barhait 		2019
(5th) 		29 December 2019[§] 2 February 2024 4 years, 35 days Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Hemant II
7 Champai Soren
(born 1956)
MLA for Seraikella 		2 February 2024 4 July 2024 153 days Champai
(5) Hemant Soren
(born 1975)
MLA for Barhait 		4 July 2024[§] Incumbent 1 year, 298 days Hemant III
2024
(6th) 		Hemant IV

Leaders of the opposition

Colour key for parties
  Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
  Bharatiya Janata Party
  Indian National Congress
No Portrait Name Constituency Term[4] Assembly
(election) 		Party
1 Stephen Marandi Dumka 24 November 2000 10 July 2004 3 years, 229 days 1st
(2000 election) 		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
2 Haji Hussain Ansari Madhupur 2 August 2004 1 March 2005 211 days
3 Sudhir Mahato Ichagarh 16 March 2005 18 September 2006 1 year, 186 days 2nd
(2005 election)
4 Arjun Munda Kharsawan 4 December 2006 29 May 2009 2 years, 176 days Bharatiya Janata Party
5 Rajendra Prasad Singh Bermo 7 January 2010 18 January 2013 3 years, 11 days 3rd
(2009 election) 		Indian National Congress
(4) Arjun Munda Kharsawan 19 July 2013 23 December 2014 1 year, 157 days Bharatiya Janata Party
6 Hemant Soren Barhait 7 January 2015 28 December 2019 4 years, 355 days 4th
(2014 election) 		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
7 Babulal Marandi Dhanwar 24 February 2020 16 October 2023 3 years, 234 days 5th
(2019 election) 		Bharatiya Janata Party
8 Amar Kumar Bauri[5] Chandankiyari 16 October 2023 23 November 2024 1 year, 38 days
(7) Babulal Marandi[6][7] Dhanwar 6 March 2025 Incumbent 1 year, 53 days 6th
(2024 election)

See also

  • List of chief ministers of Jharkhand
  • List of constituencies of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
  • List of deputy chief ministers of Jharkhand
  • List of speakers of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
  • List of leaders of the opposition in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly

Notes

  1. ^ This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he headed may have been a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
  2. ^ The first Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand was constituted by the MLAs elected in the 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, whose constituencies were in the newly formed Jharkhand.[1]
  3. ^ a b c President's rule may be imposed when the "government in a state is not able to function as per the Constitution", which often happens because no party or coalition has a majority in the assembly. When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant, and the administration is taken over by the governor, who functions on behalf of the central government. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.[2]
  4. ^ a b c When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.[3]

References

  1. ^ Chaudhuri, Kalyan (1 September 2000). "Jharkhand, at last". Frontline. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  2. ^ Diwanji, Amberish K. (15 March 2005). "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 19 May 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  3. ^ Amberish K. Diwanji. "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. 15 March 2005. Retrieved on 3 March 2013.
  4. ^ "विधानसभा". Archived from the original on 26 March 2023.
  5. ^ Outlook India (16 October 2023). "Amar Kumar Bauri Appointed As Leader Of BJP Legislative Party In Jharkhand". Archived from the original on 19 May 2024. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  6. ^ PTI (7 March 2025). "BJP's Babulal Marandi recognised as leader of opposition in J'khand assembly". ThePrint. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  7. ^ "BJP's Babulal Marandi recognised as leader of opposition in Jharkhand assembly". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
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